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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

UPDATED

I had to change the theme for thesh17 again because mine’s having problems right now. I’ll fix it hopefully soon.

9/14/07  - We’re still working on it. I promise

12/01/07 - Okay. So I might of lied a little. But..  We’ll work on it eventually?   I have no job now so that means free time for me.

posted by johntash at 3:39 pm  

Sh17ty Maintenance IV

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

  • I checked Google’s Webmaster Tools and saw a lot of 404 errors dealing with */Unknown
    • I don’t know what’s going on or why Google wants to add /Unknown to every link it finds. So I’m going to leave it alone for now.
  • I have my 404 error page set up to email me whenever it gets hit and there’s always tons of favicon.ico errors so I finally figured out the solution.
    • In my headers.php file I changed
      <link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”favicon.ico” >
      to
      <link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”http://www.thesh17.com/favicon.ico” >
    • Pretty easy fix. I was almost tempted to create a .htaccess rule to redirect all favicon.ico requests to that file until I realized it was my fault for not using an absolute path.
  • There’s a lot of 404 errors that look like this : “http://www.thesh17.com/wp/2007/04/17/hot-fuzz-from-the-people-who-made-shaun-of-the-dead/feed:http://www.thesh17.com/comments/feed/“
    • I don’t know how to fix this really. It only showed up recently so I’m hoping it’s just someone’s broken browser. As far As I can tell all links to comment feeds are correct and working.
  • The following pages were reported as not being reachable but work fine now.
  • There’s 272 urls being restricted by the robots.txt file and it cut my supplementary indexed pages down a lot. There’s 283 pages indexed by Google now.
  • Disabled the Shoutbox on the sidebar.
  • Removed the tag and category pages from the sitemap.xml file since they were being blocked by robots.txt anyway.
  • Disabled the Text Link Ads plugin.
  • Removed the Vizu Poll in the sidebar.

    • There’s some other things I did too, but I was bored and felt like listing these.

    posted by johntash at 3:00 pm  

    Sh17y Maintenance III

    Thursday, May 24, 2007

  • I signed up for and started adding Text Link Ads to thesh17
  • Installed the beer-me plugin.
    • It’ll show a link at the bottom of every post to buy us beer. It’s better than asking for donations, right? A beer a day keeps thesh17.com running
  • Signed up for the AdGridNetwork
    • If it doesn’t bring any traffic to thesh17, I’ll probably remove it..
    • It’s at the bottom of the sidebar. Yell at me if you don’t like it.
  • DreamHost moved www.thesh17.com to a new host with less load so it shouldn’t take 5+ seconds to load the main page anymore.
  • Our forums are getting filled with spam.
  • I updated wordpress to 2.2 a few days ago.
  • I changed a lot of things with the site’s design and code, but it’s still basically broke in anything other than firefox. I’ll give somebody a dollar to fix it.
  • (edit)Fixed a few 404 errors with the category links and changed all of the category urls(not the tags)
  • (edit)Changed the robots.txt and sitemap.xml files

    • posted by johntash at 8:32 pm  

    Sh17Cast Preview #1

    Tuesday, April 24, 2007

    My roommate, Shane, decided to prank call one of our friends’ friends. It’s pretty funny, and I think once we get started with the sh17cast we’ll try to throw in some prank calls. Use the flash player below to play it.

    If you want to prank one of your friends or family, leave a comment here or try to email me. We’ll do it(as long as it’s in the United States.) Just don’t post any phone numbers here in the comments or shoutbox.

    posted by johntash at 11:03 pm  

    Check out our Sh17tty forum!

    Monday, April 23, 2007

    After me and Jt yacked about it we decided the forum needed changed. And thanks to our lovely Jt it has been! So go check out the forum and see what you think:P

    Gerg Jew

    posted by Gerg Jew at 7:54 pm  

    WordPress 2.1.3

    Wednesday, April 4, 2007

    I just updated WordPress to 2.1.3, and it looks like it went smoothly. Dreamhost has a neat one-click-install system that works pretty well; I haven’t had any trouble with it yet. I clicked upgrade and it sent me an email in a few minutes letting me know it was complete.

    Also, if you click the Dreamhost link above and enter the referral code THESH17 then you’ll get $90 off your bill and we’ll get $7 for referring you.

    posted by johntash at 1:42 pm  

    Some optimizing to thesh17 downloading time

    Tuesday, March 20, 2007

    I followed the advice from gHacks and started optimizing thesh17 a little bit better.

    I installed the css-compress wordpress plugin that automatically gzips .css files, and it reduced the (~)download time from 28.85 seconds on a 56k modem to 23 seconds. That alone is pretty good, but I decided to re-enable the normal gzip support in wordpress too, so that all pages are gzipped before being sent to your browser. This didn’t have much effect on thesh17, so it was still at 23 seconds.

    I’ll still keep messing around with things I find, but for right now the main page is less than 100k with all images, scripts, and stylesheets loaded. On a T1 or a good cable connection that’s around 4 or 5 seconds. With any luck, I can get it lower. Check it out for yourself.

    posted by johntash at 11:44 pm  
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